#employment

By Lorene D. Park, J.D. While the Eleventh Circuit agreed with a lower court that the ADA did not require a hospital to reassign a nurse to a new unit without any competition for the job and that givi ... Read more

By Pamela Wolf, J.D. and Ronald Miller, J.D. The Supreme Court heard oral argument in a case that could have very broad implications for the trending Chapter 11 bankruptcy resolution known as a “struc ... Read more

Yesterday, President Elect Donald J. Trump tapped Andy Puzder to run the Department of Labor. Over on that Twitter jawn, I was asked for my hot take on what Mr. Puzder’s appointment as Secretary ... Read more

Documentation. What a pain! You have so many more important things to do. But taking the time to document is a good practice that may save you a lot of grief later. I know that most of you already kno ... Read more

In the recent election, San Jose voters passed a voter initiative creating the “Opportunity to Work” ordinance. The purpose of the ordinance, which will become effective on March 13, 2017, is to prom ... Read more

Sources within President-Elect Donald Trump’s transition team said today that Mr. Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Labor would be Andy Puzder, Chief Executive Officer of CKE Restaurants, I ... Read more

This week, Division One college football set its playoff schedule, and basketball is already in full swing. College sports generate significant revenue for their schools and big-time college coaches e ... Read more

By Dave Strausfeld, J.D. In a suit alleging they were misclassified as independent contractors, FedEx delivery drivers relied on a recent New York statute that was passed expressly to force package de ... Read more

By Ronald Miller, J.D. Former members of the University of Pennsylvania’s women’s track team were not employees of the university under the FLSA, and so were not entitled to be paid minimum wage for t ... Read more

The American Trucking Association (ATA) estimates that the for-hire trucking industry faced a driver shortage of nearly 48,000 drivers at the close of 2015. The effects of this shortage can be felt ac ... Read more

What the heck do pistachios have to do with the Alternative Right also known as the “alt-right” or white nationalists? Well, multiple news outlets, Philly.com (here) among others, are repo ... Read more

This year is ending with quite a few changes in various federal workplace posters. To ensure that employers, especially federal contractors, have kept up with the required changes, here is a summary: ... Read more

Walmart Stores, Inc., will pay $7.5 million to resolve a suit by an employee who claimed the retail giant refused to provide the same health insurance benefits to her same-sex spouse that it extends t ... Read more

Right-to-work laws limit the “union security” a union can achieve in a collective bargaining agreement with an employer. In states with no right-to-work law, unions can bargain for contract provisions ... Read more

Today is your lucky day. For, your see, I have received special permission from my Illuminati brothers and sisters to share with you the secret to navigating this morass that is the U.S. Department of ... Read more

By Dave Strausfeld, J.D. It was at least plausible that a homebuilding company filed a trade secret suit against a former employee mainly for revenge, held a federal district court in New Jersey, deny ... Read more

By Lorene D. Park, J.D. A county road department employee who claimed he was constructively forced, at age 68, to retire from his position after working there 23 years avoided summary judgment on his ... Read more

By Joy P. Waltemath, J.D. A court-ordered arbitration panel that awarded $1810.91 in overtime and minimum wages to an employee but, consistent with the limit of their authority, confirmed they could n ... Read more

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